Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:5875 comp.sys.mac.programmer:19118
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!arthur!francis
From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Compactor vs StuffIt(s).
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.044114.2024@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 04:41:14 GMT
References: <90318.005914CCC105@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Nov14.215510.16953@midway.uchicago.edu> <90319.002535CCC105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago
Lines: 16

Okay, somebody's pointed out to me that Compactor creates self-
extracting archives.  This, I suppose, actually makes it better than
StuffIt for distribution, since you don't need anything but the archive.
However, BinHex would still be a good thing, since (a) it gives ASCII,
which ensures Unix will never freak over it, and (b), BinHex recognizes
things that don't have a file type--which is pretty much sure to be the
case when you get it off a Unix-type machine--& you can't run an app
unless its type is APPL.  (This is actually a problem with StuffIt;
without going in somehow & forcing the thing to be the right type--
tricky [impossible?] when it doesn't have a type at all yet--I can't
get StuffIt to see the downloaded archives, unless they were BinHexed.)

| Francis Stracke		| My opinions are my own.  I don't steal them.|
| Department of Mathematics	|=============================================|
| University of Chicago		| Non sequiturs make me eat lampshades	      |
| francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu	|   				       	      |